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Columbia police lost 6,300 videos from patrol vehicles' dashboard cameras when a server crashed.

Only a few of the videos contained useful evidence, accoridng to Columbia police. The problem happened last week when a server that stores the camera videos crashed after repeated malfunctions.

Police told The Columbia Tribune that usually servers survive the loss of a hard drive, but that they lost too much information to be able to recreate the information.

The server is currently running again. A new one would cost the department $22,000.

The Columbia Tribune reported Thursday that any videos from the 60 days before the server crash that were not tagged as important evidence and backed up on DVD are gone.

(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)